“The police will ask what color.”
“It was nondescript navy blue.” Ethan glanced down at his own sweatshirt, tossed on that morning from a stack of similar clothes in the bottom of his drawer. “Just like I’m wearing. Hell, like half the population wears every weekend.”
“It’s still something.”
Lizzie stood framed inside the doorway, long, curly waves of hair framing her face, and he stilled. Since he’d seen her the morning before, his emotions had been on a roller coaster through the ups and downs of his new reality.
Yet here she was. Standing in the doorway of their child’s room, a warrior goddess prepared to do battle to protect her home. He saw no fear. Instead, all he saw was a ripe, righteous anger, spilling from her in hard, deep breaths.
“Maybe you should sit down?”
“I’m too mad to sit.”
“Once again, I’m forced to ask the obvious. Humor me.”
He reached for the window, but she stopped him. “Leave it. It’s not that cold, and maybe there are fingerprints.”
Although he had no doubt the perp had left nothing behind, Ethan did as she requested. She’d already taken a seat in the rocking chair in the corner, and he felt his knees buckle at the image that rose up to replace her in his mind’s eye.
Lizzie, rocking in that same chair, their child nestled in her arms, suckling at her breast.
The shock of emotion that burrowed beneath his heart raced through him, and Ethan fought to keep any trace of it from showing. How could he feel so much joy at something so unexpected?
At something he’d never wanted?
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